编者的话吴国杰自从新冠肺炎疫症爆发，全球染疫人数已逾二亿五千万，病逝者超过五百万，数字还未计算检测能力薄弱、无法确定死因的第三世界穷困国家。因着疫情，世界各地人民的生活、经济、出行皆受到不同程度的影响；例如外出要戴口罩，保持社交距离，聚会人数受限，入境须检疫隔离，旅游往来大减，相关行业裁员，失业率因而攀升等等。在这环境下，教会聚会也在相当程度上受到影响，疫情严重、聚会受限期间，教会实体聚会暂停，网上直播、视像对话成为必须的替代模式；即使疫情缓和，实体聚会重开，网上同步也变成新常态。面对这被称为「世纪疫症」的灾难，究竟基督信仰有何资源可帮助教会作出回应，将危机化为转机？今期《山道期刊》以「疫症与灾难」为主题，集合了不同的学者从两约圣经、教义神学、实践神学等角度进行探讨，期望能启迪现代的基督徒如何应对这个时代挑战。 ...

编者的话邓绍光人是什么？基督教的信仰认为，人既不是创造主，就必定是受造物。从这个角度来看，人是受造物的一分子，因此不能离开其受造特性来讨论。人论是不能离开创造论而独立建立起来的。那么，这个受造的人是怎样的？这是今期《山道期刊》专题文章想要探讨的。 ...

From Quasi-Goddess to Protestant Woman: Martin Luther's Re-imagining of the Virgin Mary CHAN Hiu Ki Contrary to the reluctance of the Protestants to talk about saints and the Virgin Mary today, Martin Luther, the main initiator of the Protestant...

The Suffering Messiah as Christian Ingroup Prototype in 1 Peter Joyce Wai-Lan SUN This essay investigates the role and implications of emphasizing Jesus Christ as the Suffering Messiah in 1 Peter for the social identity formation of its targeted readers....

Paul's Messianic Idea in the Letter to the Romans XUE Xiaxia There is no consensus about the way Paul uses the term Χριστός in the past half century. Some scholars argue that Paul usesΧριστός as a surname, which carries no significant...

Another Take on the JohannineTemple Cleansing Crux: A Perspective from Jewish Messianism Josaphat C. TAM John 2:13-22 has been an interpretive crux throughout the history of Johannine studies. There has been a long controversy as to whether there is only...

The Conflation of Messianic Traditions in Mark's Composite Scriptural References Jonathan W. LO In this paper, I will examine Mark's portrayal of Jesus as Messiah from the perspective of his use of composite references to Old Testament scripture....

The Messianic View of the Dead Sea Scrolls Tony HK SHER “Messiah” denotes someone who is being anointed with oil. In the Old Testament, the term is generally used to describe a person anointed and thereby installed to a certain position,...

The Profile of Messianism in 2 Maccabees Francis BORCHARDT This article explores the possibility of finding messianic figures in 2 Maccabees, a Jewish work written in Greek during the second century BCE. It argues that Judas Maccabeus, a central character...

Christianity, Confucianism, Chinese Family and Modernization:A Reflection from Max Weber's Religious Sociology HUNG Tsz Wan Andrew This paper explores Max Weber's three criticisms of Confucianism: lack of tension between this world and the...